race you to the waterside.

These days, US foreign policy is all about MAS - Mutually Assured Surveillance. We monitor every other country in some sense, and they all know we’re watching them. We keep tabs on phone conversations, wiretap, read their newspapers. Well, except for one - what’s the one country we don’t monitor? That’s right, Great Britian. Oh, yeah, technically we don’t monitor Australia, either. They’re not much of a security threat. We figure those heathens won’t figure out how to use the phone for another hundred years or so.